Fruit sales have jumped in Taiwan over yesterday’s Ghost Festival, with average selling prices in Taipei’s wholesale markets and hypermarkets rising around 20 per cent.
According to produce company Taipei Agricultural Products Marketing Co, average wholesale prices for fresh fruit have risen to NT$35.1 per kg, a 20 per cent rise on last week, reported The China Post.
In Taipei’s largest fruit and vegetable wholesale market, Taipei One, average prices hit NT$28.1 per kg over the weekend, up from NT$24 on 15 August, according to the Council of Agriculture.
Consumers were favouring pears, apples, pomelos, grapes, guavas, watermelons, bananas and longan, according to one fruit vendor at the market The China Post spoke with, which people also beginning to turn to peaches, nectarines, cherries and kiwifruit.
The Ghost Festival fell on 24 August, and wraps up the Ghost Month.
